Patents by Inventor Frank Mikic, deceased

Frank Mikic, deceased has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5860339
    Abstract: A wrenching member includes at least two spaced-apart and substantially oppositely facing drive surfaces, each of which has a roughened region and an unroughened region thereon, with the roughened region being disposed adjacent to one end of one of the drive surfaces and adjacent to the other end of the other drive surface so as to afford a differential driving arrangement which exerts a greater frictional wrenching force in one direction than in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Snap-on Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Mikic, deceased, Mark Eberhage, Jeffrey H. Hoff
  • Patent number: 5813296
    Abstract: A socket drive tool includes an elongated shaft having a coupling structure for coupling to a socket. The coupling structure includes a detent ball disposed in a detent recess and moveable between retaining and releasing positions relative to the socket. The shaft has a cavity therein communicating with the detent recess. A tubular sleeve having a sleeve cam surface is disposed coaxially about the shaft for movement between a retaining condition and a releasing condition. A rod is moveable axially between retaining and releasing conditions, being spring-biased to the latter. The rod has within the cavity a first cam surface engageable with the detent ball and a second cam surface engageable with a transfer ball which is, in turn, engageable with the sleeve cam surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Snap-On Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Hoff, Frank Mikic, deceased, Mark Eberhage, legal representative